Designing an ecological virtual task in the context of executive functions: a preliminary study

摘要

Brain damage is a major cause of disability that often leads to deficits in executive functions with dramatic consequences on activities of daily living. While rehabilitation approaches of the dysexecutive syndrome are still limited, virtual reality has shown its potential to propose innovative intervention strategies based on ecologically valid functional tasks. The Therapeutic Virtual Kitchen (TVK) was designed as an assessment tool to help therapists and their patients with brain injury. In the TVK, some ecological virtual tasks may be configured by the therapists for patients' assessment and rehabilitation. The purpose of this paper is to validate the feasibility of the TVK with healthy subjects and patients with brain injury in Kerpape Rehabilitation Center.